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Hi :)
I thought the umlaut was a specific type of such a mark and that there were quite a few different 
markings, and in different languages, that could change the way a letter sounds?
Regards from
Tom :)



--- On Tue, 13/3/12, Séamas Ó Brógáin <sob@iol.ie> wrote:

From: Séamas Ó Brógáin <sob@iol.ie>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] two dots above the i in presentation.
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Tuesday, 13 March, 2012, 9:47

Brian wrote:

For what it's worth, the German for "diaeresis" appears to be "Trema".
The umlaut looks the same, but it's a different mark: it is an accent,
whereas the diaeresis is (as you describe) also a diacritic but not an
accent.

Not quite. “Umlaut” is not a character or a mark but the linguistic
phenomenon whereby a vowel sound changes under the influence of another
vowel (e.g. Haus > Häuser). In German this is marked by a diaeresis (the
two dots), called “trema” in German. Calling the symbol “an umlaut” is a
solecism.




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